Team Lead, Android Core Product

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Alabama.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of significant Android core product features from inception to launch, collaborating closely with the design team throughout the process.

• Manage, sustain, and enhance reliability metrics for vital features.

• Evaluate pull requests and offer constructive feedback.

• Assist engineers by removing obstacles and resolving complex technical challenges.

• Standardize reusable solutions and eliminate redundant implementations.

• Ensure that shared code remains well-tested, clear, maintained, and reusable.

• Drive enhancements to team processes and methodologies.

• Minimize the need for manual intervention during proper releases.

• Tackle recurring issues by modifying the underlying systems.

• Broaden automated verification and shift testing to earlier stages of development.

• Conduct planning and prioritize tasks that require decision-making.

• Establish suitable review levels and sign-off criteria.

• Engage in discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering teams while communicating team limitations.

• Manage critical issues, take charge of feature releases, and provide nightly builds to QA.

• Foster the growth and learning of junior engineers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, including leadership of a team or ownership of a significant feature while maintaining a hands-on role.

• Strong proficiency in Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit tests.

• Experience in shipping and maintaining background audio or other prolonged background tasks.

• Awareness of the significance of tests and the approach to writing them, including aspects that cannot be covered.

• An example of an initiative you introduced to a team that persisted after your involvement ceased, along with an honest assessment of the effort required to achieve it.

• Some familiarity with the less popular aspects of the job: encouraging behavioral changes in colleagues and managing the resulting friction.

• Insight into which changes require extensive review and which do not, based on the system's functionality.

• A proven history of creating solutions that your team actively utilized, rather than solely improving your own efficiency.

• The capability to articulate how your team collaborates with AI agents, not just your personal methods.

• An intuitive understanding of product design, user empathy, and a commitment to advancing Android UI/UX beyond the specifications.

• A self-motivated drive to enhance the application and codebase beyond what is specified.

• Strong communication abilities.

• Submission of portfolio and LinkedIn links is requested with your application.

• Bonus: Experience in building, maintaining, or contributing to open-source Android projects.

• Bonus: Familiarity with iOS, Web, or NodeJS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus

• Stock options

• A diverse and inclusive workplace